Union Boss: We Refuse to Apologise for Bin Chaos, It's the Council's Fault

The Scotsman › July 30, 2009

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THE union leader at the centre of Edinburgh's refuse collection row has told The Scotsman that the city's binmen have nothing to apologise for and insisted the dispute could have been headed off months ago.

Stephen MacGregor, head of the city council branch of the Unite union, said the "shambolic" handling of wage negotiations by senior officials was to blame for the impasse.

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Union Boss: We Refuse to Apologise for Bin Chaos, It's the Council's Fault

Mr MacGregor said yesterday that the union had "no regrets" over the month-long dispute and that the capital's under-fire binmen had done nothing wrong to date - d...

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